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CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the
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Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
Dated 27th September, 1937,
Received 10.45 a.mil. 27th
September.
(61)
No.207. Addressed to Tokio No.14 for 27th September
repeated to Colonial Office telegram No.207.
Your telegram No.21 repeating your telegram
I have not (corrupt
No.444 to the Foreign Office.
group) seen Japanese Consul General on this subject but
my Colonial Secretary reported that such a bargain was
informally proposed to him. His reply after consulting
me was much more non committal than your tel:gram suggests
and he only indicated that there could be no harm in the
Consul General taking initiative of making his proposal
to Tokio and that if such a bargain should appeal to His
lajesty's Government the appropriate steps of retraction
will no doubt be taken here under instructions e
2:
Japan has presumably es auch or as little right
to bomb this rallway as any other lines in China financed
by neutrals.
3. I still maintain my objections to a general
Arms Embargo and I feel that any such partial embargo would
raise a storm of protest both in China and in Europe
however important to the Colony this railway may be.
As a
If reply is to be negative the longer it takes
in tranmission the better from our point of view.
to F.O.
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